'Extremity' definitions:
Definition of 'extremity'
From: WordNet
noun
An external body part that projects from the body; "it is important to keep the extremities warm" [syn: extremity, appendage, member]
noun
An extreme condition or state (especially of adversity or disease)
noun
The greatest or utmost degree; "the extremity of despair"
noun
The outermost or farthest region or point
noun
That part of a limb that is farthest from the torso
Definition of 'Extremity'
From: GCIDE
- Extremity \Ex*trem"i*ty\, n.; pl. Extremities. [L. extremitas: cf. F. extr['e]mit['e].]
- 1. The extreme part; the utmost limit; the farthest or remotest point or part; as, the extremities of a country. [1913 Webster]
- They sent fleets . . . to the extremities of Ethiopia. --Arbuthnot. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Zo["o]l.) One of locomotive appendages of an animal; a limb; a leg or an arm of man. [1913 Webster]
- 3. The utmost point; highest degree; most aggravated or intense form. "The extremity of bodily pain." --Ray. [1913 Webster]
- 4. The highest degree of inconvenience, pain, or suffering; greatest need or peril; extreme need; necessity. [1913 Webster]
- Divers evils and extremities that follow upon such a compulsion shall here be set in view. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- Upon mere extremity he summoned this last Parliament. --Milton.
- Syn: Verge; border; extreme; end; termination. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'extremity'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abandon,
- abstract,
- aching heart,
- acme,
- acuteness,
- agony,
- agony of mind,
- all,
- anguish,
- animality,
- apex,
- apogee,
- arch,
- arms,
- atrocity,
- bale,
- barbarity,
- bitter end,
- bitterness,
- bleeding heart,
- blind alley,
- bloodlust,
- border,
- border line,
- bottom dollar,
- bound,
- boundary,
- boundary condition,
- boundary line,
- boundlessness,
- bounds,
- bourn,
- box,
- break boundary,
- breakoff point,
- broken heart,
- brow,
- brutality,
- butt,
- butt end,
- cap,
- ceiling,
- circumscription,
- clear,
- clear away,
- climacteric,
- climax,
- cloud nine,
- clubfoot,
- clutch,
- compass,
- confine,
- convergence of events,
- corner,
- crest,
- crisis,
- critical juncture,
- critical point,
- crossroads,
- crown,
- crucial period,
- crunch,
- crushing,
- cul-de-sac,
- culmen,
- culmination,
- cutoff,
- cutoff point,
- dead end,
- dead-end street,
- deadline,
- deadlock,
- death agonies,
- death groan,
- death rattle,
- death struggle,
- death throes,
- deathbed,
- deathwatch,
- delimitation,
- deliver,
- depression,
- depth of misery,
- desolation,
- despair,
- destructiveness,
- detach,
- determinant,
- difference,
- differentiate,
- digit,
- disburden,
- discern,
- discriminate,
- disembarrass,
- disembroil,
- disencumber,
- disengage,
- disentangle,
- disinvolve,
- distinguish,
- division line,
- dog,
- dying breath,
- edge,
- egregiousness,
- emergency,
- end,
- enormousness,
- exaggeration,
- excess,
- excessiveness,
- exigency,
- exorbitance,
- exorbitancy,
- extravagance,
- extravagancy,
- extreme,
- extreme limit,
- extremes,
- extremism,
- extremities,
- extricate,
- fabulousness,
- fag end,
- farthest bound,
- feet,
- ferociousness,
- fetlock,
- fierceness,
- final extremity,
- fingers,
- finish,
- floor,
- foot,
- force,
- forefoot,
- forepaw,
- free,
- frontier,
- furiousness,
- giantism,
- gigantism,
- gluttony,
- grief,
- halt,
- hands,
- harefoot,
- harshness,
- heartache,
- heaven,
- heavens,
- heavy heart,
- hedge,
- heel,
- height,
- high noon,
- high-water mark,
- highest degree,
- highest pitch,
- highest point,
- hinge,
- hole,
- hoof,
- hyperbole,
- hypertrophy,
- immoderacy,
- immoderateness,
- immoderation,
- impasse,
- impetuosity,
- inclemency,
- incontinence,
- infelicity,
- inhumanity,
- inordinacy,
- inordinance,
- inordinateness,
- instep,
- intemperance,
- intemperateness,
- intensity,
- interface,
- jumping-off place,
- last agony,
- last breath,
- last gasp,
- legs,
- liberate,
- limbs,
- limen,
- limit,
- limitation,
- limiting factor,
- limits,
- line,
- line of demarcation,
- low-water mark,
- lower limit,
- malignity,
- march,
- margin,
- mark,
- maximum,
- melancholia,
- melancholy,
- mercilessness,
- meridian,
- mete,
- mindlessness,
- misery,
- monstrousness,
- moribundity,
- mountaintop,
- murderousness,
- ne plus ultra,
- nib,
- nimiety,
- no place higher,
- noon,
- nth degree,
- outrageousness,
- overdevelopment,
- overgreatness,
- overgrowth,
- overindulgence,
- overlargeness,
- overmuch,
- overmuchness,
- pad,
- pass,
- pastern,
- patte,
- paw,
- peak,
- pedal extremity,
- pedes,
- periphery,
- pes,
- pied,
- pinch,
- pinnacle,
- pitch,
- pitilessness,
- point,
- pole,
- prostration,
- pug,
- push,
- radicalism,
- release,
- rescue,
- resolve,
- ridge,
- rigor,
- roughness,
- rub,
- sadness,
- savagery,
- separate,
- seventh heaven,
- sever,
- severalize,
- severity,
- sharpness,
- sky,
- sole,
- spire,
- splayfoot,
- stalemate,
- stand,
- standstill,
- start,
- starting line,
- starting point,
- stop,
- strait,
- stub,
- stump,
- suicidal despair,
- summit,
- tag,
- tag end,
- tail,
- tail end,
- target date,
- term,
- terminal date,
- termination,
- terminus,
- terrorism,
- the whole,
- threshold,
- throes of death,
- Thule,
- time allotment,
- tip,
- tip-top,
- toe,
- toes,
- too much,
- too-muchness,
- tootsy,
- top,
- trotter,
- trotters,
- turn,
- turning point,
- Ultima Thule,
- unconscionableness,
- undueness,
- ungentleness,
- ungula,
- unravel,
- unreasonableness,
- unrestrainedness,
- unscramble,
- untangle,
- untie,
- untwine,
- upmost,
- upper extremity,
- upper limit,
- uppermost,
- utmost,
- utmost extent,
- uttermost,
- vandalism,
- vehemence,
- venom,
- vertex,
- very top,
- viciousness,
- violence,
- virulence,
- wings,
- woe,
- wretchedness,
- zenith